Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-04-18
NEWS OF THE DAY.


Saturday.
Julio r. Santos claims 1890, 900 indemnity
for his imprisonment in Ecuador.
John Leighton who claimed to be llSyears
old, died at Cumberland yesterday.
A reunion of California pioneers residing
in Washington will be held in May.
The Nickel Plate Railroad will be sold in
Cleveland, O., at public auction, on clay 49,
Rev. Mr.. Kuriz, prominent minister OF
the NJ f. Church, died at Deer Park, Md
Saturday afternoon.
Heavy snow storms and bitterly cold
weather are prevailing in the northern and
eastern portions OF France.
The old Felicity Street Methodist Epis.
copal Church Of New Orleans has been do
EtroyeG by fire; loss $50. 900.
The Blue Laws were again enforced in
Washington yesterday, though those who
wanted drink did not suffer.
John ]. Yoeckel manager of the B. & O.
Express in Washington, has been arrested
for Irregularities in mis- accounts.
jim Bates, notorious desperate, said tc
have been the slayer of ten men, was killed
Friday night in Polk county, Tenn.
The business portion of Crescent City. sc
miles southeast of Palatka, Fla, on Cres
cent lake, was burned Friday night.
Henry Morgan died in New York yester.
day, aged eighty. he was one of the lead
ing men in New York railroad circles fol
forty years.
The 500 strikers at the Natrona Pa salt
works have been ordered to vacate the COM
pany's houses to-day. The men threaten to
resist eviction, and trouble is feared
The convicts in the State penitentiary at
Raleigh, N. c., became insubordnate Satur'
day afternoon and the police and military
had to be called in to reduce them to sub
lection.
While viewing the wreck Of freight
train on the Chicago and Northwestern
Railroad near Palatine, ILL.,, yesterday, six
persons were killed by the bursting of a
water tank.
R. II. Knapp, prominent real estate
broker and politician, of Atlanta, Ga, has
fed the country, having victimized large
number of dependent persons out of sums
aggregating $4,000.
Chief Clerk Youmaps has decided to EN-
poy force of 100 charwomen for the Treas
ury Department. By a system of fnrlough-
ing the entire force will only be engaged
nine months in the year.
1t is likely that 5000 journeymen shoe.
makers of New York will withdraw from
the Knights of Labor, three hundred oil
them having already organized an open
union as the result of e quarrel with the
knights.
Arrangements have been nearly compile
ted for the unwilling of the Calhoun statue
at Charleston, S. c., April %. All of the
uniformed troops in the State have been in.
vted to be present, and quarters have been
provided for them.
The captain of the Georgia Cadets, q
colored company Of Atlanta, has formally
rendered his company to the Governor as
an escort or bis trip to Washington during
the encampment The Governor has not
yet indicated his acceptance of the profiered
escort.
Governor Adams, Of Colorado, has issued
a quarantine proclamation against the i'm
Maryland West Virginia, Delaware, New
jersey, New York, Massachusetts, Rhode
Island, Connecticut, Missouri Kansas, Penn.
sylyania and the District of Columbia. Cat.
tie from the above States cannot he.brought
into Colorado until they have been examined
by the State veterinary surgeon.
Fire broke out Saturday on q coal dock at
the foot Of SEVENTEEN street, North river,
Now York, belonging to the New York
Central Raioad Company, and communi
Gated to another pier belonging to the same
company, which, with lot Of freight, was
destroyed loss about 500 900. The excur.
sion barge Pilgrim was damaged to the ex
tent of $4,000, and the coal barge S. H.
Hoole was burned loss IS. 0O0 The fire was
caused by spark from tug setting fire %
some oil leaking from broken pipe
The new minister to Austria, Gen. Law
ton, was prominent officer in the Confed-
crate service, reaching the rank of quarter.
master-g general of the army in 1863 He 10
South Carolinian by birth, and a graduate
OF West Point, but became a lawyer, and
practiced in Savannah before and after the
war. He was appointed minister To Russia
by President Cleveland, but his political dis
abilities not having been removed, and a
doubt arising az to his eligibility, he re-
signed. Since then he has been relieved of
his disabilities